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1) congratulations, you won the VPS provider lottery for something with clean IP space. you're totally confident it will remain that way? in my experience, hos
by walrus01 5y ago
1) congratulations, you won the VPS provider lottery for something with clean IP space. you're totally confident it will remain that way? in my experience, hosting services that any random person can buy with $5/mo and a credit card on the internet will inevitably lose its IP space reputation. The margins are too thin in the hosting game for a company to provide personal, human, granular attention to eliminating every spammer.
2) no, openDKIM isn't hard to set up with (for instance, postfix). and neither is properly configured SPF, DMARC, etc. But it's more than 99.9% of email users want to get into. If you're already really confident doing intermediate level linux/bsd sysadmin stuff? sure, knock yourself out, overall it's just another daemon with some text based configuration files, and plenty of good reference material out the on the internet.
If you're determined to do that you're better off with a real IMAP server setup, I recommend dovecot, than whatever this small project is in the linked URL. And then if you want webmail, either rainloop or roundcube. Or just set up a proper IMAP-over-TLS client on all your devices so you don't need webmail.
- dqv 5y agoI think DigitalOcean does a pretty good job on managing IP reputation. When setting up my account with Microsoft's feedback loop, DO was already registered as a steward of my droplet IP. It turns out DO doesn't want to be seen as spam-lenient.
- gingerlime 5y agolast I checked DigitalOcean completely blocked port 25 on their droplets.
- dqv 5y agoMailinabox uses port 587
- gingerlime 5y agois this working with all ESPs ? It was enough of a reason for me to switch my mail server to Linode.
- dqv 5y agoAs far as I can tell. Yahoo (and yahoo-like), Microsoft, Google all accepting our mail with no problems. Nothing is going to spam either.
- raegis 5y ago> 1) congratulations, you won the VPS provider lottery I'm not the person you are responding to, but honestly it's not that hard. I used to subscribe to a VPS which recycled its IPs formerly used by spammers, but now I use a company which is way more vigilant about blocking spammers. Not all IP ranges are rife with spammers, so all you need to do is run cheap tests with a few VPS companies to find a good solution.
- yuppie_scum 5y agoThis pissing match is a great advertisement for just getting a gmail account like everybody else in the universe
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agoI use a cheap vps from lowendbox like $20 a year. I used mailinabox and the setup was a few minutes. Been running it successfully for almost a year, except first few months of gmail reputation issue, the experience has been painless. You are simply fearmondering against self hosting email